Monday 6 September
20 community cases of COVID-19; three new cases in managed isolation; one historical case; almost 3.9 million vaccines administered to date
Cases
Number of new community cases: 20
Number of new cases identified at the border: Three (and one historical)
Location of new cases: Auckland
Location of community cases (total): Auckland 804 (114 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (three of whom have recovered)
Number of community cases (total): 821 (in current community outbreak)
Cases infectious in the community: Five (25%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events
Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected: 15 (75%) of yesterday’s cases
Cases epidemiologically linked: 15 of today’s cases
Cases to be epidemiologically linked: Five of today’s cases
Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 788 (in current cluster) (33 unlinked)
Number of sub-clusters: Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 363; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76.
And six epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.
Cases in hospital: 40 (total): North Shore (8); Middlemore (18); Auckland (14)
Cases in ICU or HDU: 6
Confirmed cases (total): 3,436 since pandemic began
Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 129 out of 1,618 since 1 Jan 2021
Contacts
Number of contacts identified (total): 38,058*
Percentage who have received outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 86%
Percentage with at least one test result: 91%
Locations of interest
Locations of interest (total): 122 (as at 10am 6 September)
Tests
Number of tests (total): 3,062,093
Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 4,750
Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours): 2,088
Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 13,488
Testing centres in Auckland: 22
Wastewater
Wastewater detections: No unexpected detections in the past 24 hours.
COVID-19 vaccine update
Vaccines administered to date (total): 3,890,178; 1st doses: 2,564,936; 2nd doses: 1,325,242
Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 38,710; 1st doses: 26,738; 2nd doses: 11,972
Māori - 1st doses: 234,863; 2nd doses: 117,211
Pacific Peoples - 1st doses:151,365; 2nd doses: 80,265
NZ COVID-19 tracer
Registered users (total): 3,151,533
Poster scans (total): 339,584,762
Manual diary entries (total): 15,459,174
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 852,546
*This denominator may fluctuate due to additional contacts being identified and/or the Ministry excluding records, for instance duplicates, following further contact tracing investigations.
There may be some delays in providing data in some instances. On these occasions, we will use data from the day before and clearly note this.